Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-13
Adventurous Mrs. Gram Nser.
HER HUSBAND WANTS A DIVORCE BECAUSE SHE
ALTOGETHER TOO ROMANTIC.

HER HUSBAND WANTS A DIVORCE BECAUSE SHE Is
ALToGKTHER TOO ROMANTIC.
From the New York World, October IL.
Francis Xavier Grammer, painter, living on
Bartlett street, Brooklyn, was married In Trinity
church on september 8, 1854, to Augusta Parton.
Mr.. Grammer was and is still a sober, Industrious
man, earning good wages, and his wife, young
woman OF twenty-four, is OF masculine kind OF
beauty. Affairs went on smoothly and happily for
a few months, when Mir. Grammer discovered that
his wife had developed a passionate fOndnesS for
beer, and In his absence the GROWER was passed
rapidly and continuously. He reconstructed but
affairs grew worse instead OF better and 1t often
happened that when he came home he could get
nothing to eat They had baby, but that did not
or three times a week with one Joseph Pfaender.
and TO Coney Island, and enjoying nerselr gener-
ally at the expense or her husband. After this
perhaps MIR. Grammer as less surprised than de,
lighted when he had collle home from work one
evening and learned that his wife had gone OF
with Pfaende altogether, although she had taken
with her all the money ne had saved during the
summer and LEFT him the six.m0nths-old baby
with nothing to eat.
Three mouths after this he received letter from
Augusta, dated Detroit, In which she informed
him that PfAender had left her when all the money
She wrote: ';still, dear Frank. / am not Giscour.
aged: ! am strong and hearty and can earn my
own living. hope you will take care OF the baby
tie. The beer in Detroit is much better
than what they sell in Brooklyn. and
lighter. Women, too. are .auch thought Of.
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all, expressing In oLe she sent from st. Paul de %
sorrow iOr the baby's death, out cOnsOng hersefi
with the thought that shs would meet her in
heaven, "v acre" as she beautifully expr ssed it.
There Is always rest for the weary" Her fourth
letter was dated Walla Walla, W. T., and In thi,
se cn n Sa1 70 a@
not forget TO assure him that women We're highly
appreciated there. Appended is free tran slation
OF the last letter Mrs. Grammer wrote 70 her nus
band:
BoYCE CITY, IDAHO, Sept 2, 1887.
Dear Husband: left Washington Territory last
month with party OF hunters. We killed lots OF
d .er, antelope, and buffalo, and AFTER = week en-
tered Idaho territory, where some OF our people
went prospecting for gold while others continued
ers. on, what glorious lie l. Is, riding after
the gigantic bison on the boundless prairie
What music there Is In the short, sharp crack OF
freedom untrainineed by skirts or bustles. We
are all free here; we dress alike, smoke the same
tobacco, and woman is considered the equal
our sex Is so scarce that we are looked
upon as angels. There are risks, however, and |
That almost ended INV career. While mounted on
my mustang In pursuit OF q herd OF buffalo, lar1ut
In hand Il wanted 70 capture live bison) the
my left leg. l lay there groanlng In agony. and
a party or snake Indians found me and car.
ried me t. their camp, where ! must say they
covered was woman, and the chiefs son made
such strong love 10 me that had TO consent to
marry him. The Snakes COOk me West, but after
living Win Them u few weeks got disguised and
escaped They did not appreciate LADIES Is well as
the cowboys, VINO are dishing, daring Cavaliers l
am now In boyce CITY, but snail leave here soon
on another nuuting excursion. The contemplate
cur, PIaeDdcr, promised one time to get me
Cattle ranch In the West, but now see my way TO
AUGUSTA GRAnxrR.
After having read this remarkably cool letter,
Mr.. Grammer thought limit had been reached,
and, going tothe ONCE OF his lawyer Jules Klanke
No. A Court street. he Instructed hu to sue Tor a
divorce, bringing in Pfaender and others as core
spOndents.
'lsn't 1t necessary to serve papers on MIRA
Granmer?" asked World reporter or Mr.. Klanke
"No; guess not. 1t would he rather difliculJ
TO serve papers In the Snake country. The suit
Will 80 by Default and Mr.. Gram ner will obtain
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